Neo4j graph data science playground cannot detect exiting database on neo4j desktop

Neo4j Graph Platform Graph Algorithms/Graph Data Science
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Hi,

I'm using the "Graph Data Science Playground" app within neo4j desktop (using version 5.6.0) and have a database that I can explore using the browser and as you can see below has nodes and edges. Yet, when I try to connect to the same database using the "Graph Data Science Playground" app, it throws an error saying

"Missing: nodes or relationships.
This database does not contain any nodes or relationships. You need to load some data, otherwise the graph algorithms won't return any results."

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I'd appreciate any suggestions to fix this issue.

Thanks,
Tarak

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Hello,
this looks very similar to Neuler Graph data Science platform - #2 by bratanic_tomaz.
Can you try the suggestion there as well? :)

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Thanks for the response!

The configure --> refresh option suggested in that post doesn't work (didn't work for the OP there too).

There's another suggestion there, i.e. setting the database I want to work on as the default, but I don't know how to do that with the neo4j desktop version (is it changing a variable like default_database in the neo4j.conf file?). I'd appreciate it if you could tell me how to do that so that I can give it a try.

Thanks,
Tarak

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You were quite right about the neo4j setting but is also works through a procedure (copied the below from the default config file).

# Name of the default database (aliases are not supported). Can be changed with the 'dbms.setDefaultDatabase' procedure.
#initial.dbms.default_database=neo4j
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I ran into the same problem. Just a pointer to how to change the default database (not straightforward at all...)

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Btw, successfully changing the default database would solve the problem.

7

Did this worked? It didn't for me.